Wednesday, November 24, 2010

just got done eating a pre-Thanksgiving dinner with the fam! always so much fun :) im super tired cause i worked a full day today before the family festivities but ... hey, im off to a 4-day weekend now!

anyone going Black Friday shopping? this year will be my first year & im not sure how its gunna go. it'll probably be very HECTIC & CRAZY...but i'll just punch a few people who get in my way. haha. kidding :)

Monday, November 22, 2010

alright, first, from 2 weeks ago, i bring you...3 coats of Color Club's Wild And Willing. the polish looks so much prettier in the bottle. its a copper/pink/burnt orange duochrome.

here's a picture in the shade; the duochrome-ness is more visible. the stamps are from Born Pretty Store's m14 & Konad's m69. on the middle finger, i layered one coat of Sinful Colors' Pearl Harbor. its barely noticeable though.

3 coats of Orly's famous Space Cadet. is there anyone else who doesnt love Space Cadet? cause really, i DO NOT like it. *shrugs.

shade picture; more visible duochrome-ness again. stamps are used from the same plates as i mentioned before. and the middle finger is, also, layered in one coat of SC Pearl Harbor.

*side note; eww. i hate my nails that long T__T

here is my first Ruffian mani from some time last week..2 coats of Zoya's Trixie & 2 coats of Sally Hansen's Black Out & one coat of China Glaze's Matte Magic. - - - this picture was taken after 2 days of work..so you can see all the scratches & fuglies on my nails =/

another mani from some time last week,3 coats of China Glaze's Mrs. Claus. omg, so cute! i loooove this one~!

and today, i am wearing some fake nails;

i found these Broadway Fashion Diva fake nails at Walgreens for $3.19 so i bought em. i love the chrome / metallic / mirror look but i HATE it on my nails. they make my nails look so wide :( well, after this post, im probably gunna take em off anyway :P

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

long post ahead, but i have great news at the end of this post so bear with me :)

as promised, today i am going to share with you a review about the items from my awesome package. Jessica over at Born Pretty Store was ever-so generous and sent my a beautiful package to review.

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starting with the nail polishes..

NL B26, NL B32, & NL B33.

NL B26, two coats shown. the site describes this polish as "brown" but its not.. its a pretty, dusty-mauve-ish color with tinyyy gold flecks.

NL B32, three coats. the site calls this color "gray" but thats not very accurate either. this one is tons of gold glitter with lots of red and turquoise-y glitters.

NL B33, three coats. beautiful, dark turquoise with silver flecks.

the bottles and brushes are pretty small; my hands look huuuge in the pictures above. haha. the bottle contains 8ml of polish; although the brush is short, it was easy to work with; application was great for all the polishes. there was one thing that i didnt like about the polish - the smell. the polish smells like a nail salon; so it literally smelt like nail polish and lots of acrylic. i had to paint my nails outside because i didnt want the house to smell like acrylic [my parents wouldve killled me!]

Born Pretty Store nail polishes run at $3.19 a bottle and they have over 45 different colors.

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onto the image plates & the acrylic molds...

i used image plate m39 in my not-so-Halloween mani-

let me start out by saying that the acrylic molds are my favorite! they're so easy to use and they are so cute! in my mani, i did 3d acrylic kitties. i didnt have black acrylic powder so i made my kitties with white acrylic powder and then i just painted them black.

i've also used my bow mold and its the cutest thing everrr! i love it! the molds are sold at only $2.26! what a deal! BPS sells a bow mold, a kitty mold, and a stars + moon mold. there are different sizes of each shape on the mold.

the image plates are so cute! but applying isnt the easiest. when using Konad, you apply the polish, scrap off the excess, and then roll your stamper across the image, and roll the image onto your nail - right? well, BPS image plates dont exactly work like that. i tried those steps when i first used the image plates and most of the image wasnt picked up. but i learned the trick: instead of rolling across the image to pick it up, you have to PUSH DOWN on the image. every other step is the same though.

i used my white Konad stamping polish for the mani above. besides for that one issue about picking up with image, everything worked great! image plates run at different prices over at BPS, between $3.49-$22.32 ... depending if you buy one plate or if you buy the package.

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i still havent tried out my pack of nail art candy decoration, glitters, or pack of dried flowers yet, but im sure i'll love them as well :)

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ok, onto the good news! Jessica is kindly giving my readers free gifts until December 31. so pay close attention here;

- the first 100 visitors that register with over at that Born Pretty Store website can get hello kitty template for free. you dont even have to purchase anything. the hello kitty template is this one. im not sure if you'll get the scraper & stamper or not though.

if you just want the hello kitty template and do not plan on ordering anything else, the code is K388. put that as the coupon when checking out.

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- all of you who order from BPS will get 1pc Christmas nail sticker for free, no order amount limit!

if you plan on buying items, you WILL get the Hello Kitty template as well as the gifts that are according to your order amount. the code you would use at the checkout is K2010. be sure to enter that code as the coupon.

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just to clarify one more time..

- if the order is $2, you will get the items you ordered, plus hello kitty template, plus the xmas sticker.

- if the order is $60, you will get the items you ordered, plus hello kitty template, plus the cracking nail polish.

- if the order is $120, you will get the items you ordered, plus hello kitty template, plus xmas stickers, plus the rhinestones, plus the cracking nail polish, plus the glitter balls, plus the 12 templates with stamp.

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i am in no way, whatsoever, make any profit off of this. Jessica is just really sweet and is offering this to my readers only..so please take advantage of it!

i hope you ladies [and/or gents?] do order something, i know i will order more for myself! if you need help placing orders, here is a description of how to place them. BPS does ship internationally and here is the overview of shipping costs. everything on the site is in US dollars & BPS is currently doing payment by paypal.

Monday, November 1, 2010

honestly, i was going to write my review for the items from my awesome package today, but im not in the mood to be writing too much, so im going to post the mani i did last night.

another kpop inspired mani :D im not really big on girl groups but SNSD is one of the few that i like. they just came out with Hoot & so i decided to go along with that.

it was almost 1:20am last night when i was trying to finish my nails...but then my parents woke up, caught me painting my nails, and i got in trouble T__T so i didnt get to finish. my hands were awfully unsteady last night so everything looks so #$@%^&!!! :( im not too fond of this mani so i'll probably redo my nails tonight. he. he. hopefully i dont get caught this time -__-